D&D 5E [IC] Uller's Out of the Abyss

[DMAesh]

If Ez hears Sarith's comment, he looks hard at the drow, initially stung by his frankness. As the heartbeats pass, the half-drow realizes that he is actually thankful for the dark elf's honesty. "Refresh my memory again, what is Gracklestugh?"

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Ezraen does his best to keep positive, but cannot help but flinch at the comment about "chumming" the waters with sacrifices. When they head to bed down for the night, the paladin with posit to Erevan and Surana, "What do you suppose this favor is?"

 

[SunGold]

OOC: If (and only if) she catches a moment during their rest where she can speak to Sarith out of earshot of the others, Surana will say this to him: "You forgot to mention the other reason you haven't betrayed us: you haven't been ordered to. Yet, anyway. I know your fate, drow. Drum showed me, by mistake. Is there any way to undo it? I don't care that you're evil, only that you're useful. You know the Underdark, and our drow enemies, better than any of us. You have proven your value in a fight. With you alive I've got a better chance of getting out of this sunless sh*thole you call home, so if there's a way to save you, I would do it." --- Back with the rest of the group, she'll ask Shuushar what he thinks of what Ploop said. She doesn't care for either faction of the kuo-toa, but she trusts and likes Shuushar. She doesn't want to do anything that will leave him in a bad situation when they move on. In answer to Ezraen: "Nothing we'll want to do."

 

[DMAesh]

Ezraen looks quizzically, but shrugs figuring that if it was a threat to them, she would have told him.

OOC: You didn't tell us, did you? I don't remember you doing so.

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The paladin nods curtly, agreeing with Surana's sentiment.

 

[SunGold]

You didn't tell us, did you? I don't remember you doing so.

OOC: No, she hasn't. That's why she waited till he was away from the rest of you to say this to him.

 

[DMAesh]

OOC: I misread that. Okay! Ez knows nossing!

 

[Uller]

In response to Surana Sarith smiles "My time for following orders is past. There are two fates for me. Death or to become a drider...male drows who fall from favor will be forced to serve Lolth in a tortured existence. I choose death. When my body dies this fungus will take over and my body will rise again like those hook horrors. But my spirit will be freed from this tormented life so I care not."

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To Ezraen (and the group): "Gracklestugh is a gray dwarf city. It is a center of trade and industry and probably the largest settlement around. The duergar are not so savage as the kuo-toa so they won't attack anyone outright....instead they'll wait until you break one of their 'laws' and then they will imprison you. They trade with the other races of the underdark and maybe they trade with the surface dwellers as well. I don't know."

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Shuushar says he doesn't know what the favor is. He probably wants help with this 'Deep Father' cult that has driven a rift within Sloobludop. The group that you met first were obviously cultists and were demanding that Shuushar convince you to drop your weapons so they could capture you and sacrifice you to their god.

 

[DMAesh]

OOC: At the talk of cults and such, Ezraen is going to concentrate and use the Divine Sense ability. The range is only 60 feet, and only detects the presence of fiends, celestials, or undead, but I am using it more as a roleplay/storytelling device to give you the opportunity to give us information that you might not have been able to reveal otherwise. Feel free to say that I feel nothing.

 

[DMAesh]

In response to Sarith, Ezraen looks to Erevan and Surana, "It does sound like it could be a good place to get some better weapons and armor. It may help us survive a bit longer, if Drum's folk cannot take us up to the surface directly."

 

[SunGold]

"Then I hope you find Buppido before your time comes. But if you don't, I will."

"Though I'm not sure if that will make you feel better or worse," she adds with a grin as she turns and heads back to the camp.

 

[JustinCase]

Erevan is not comforted by Sarith's words, but he realizes that the drow honestly doesn't know what happened to his cousin. Instead of wondering how to figure out the truth, the elf knows that making his way back home is all that matters. Hopefully Raevion will await him there. Gods, hopefully he won't be coming down here to rescue Erevan, only to be killed by one of the infinite horrors in the Underdark!

Shaking his head to let go of thoughts about his cousin dying, Erevan focuses on the conversation about the kuo toas favor. "I'm sure he wants us to try and reason with his daughter. He wants to avoid violence, but if we get into trouble, he is in no danger. Clever fish."

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